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“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.”

People Thinking Art Made Stills Facts Difficult Elements Performances Made It Theatrical Performance Art

Author:Lady Gaga

“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.”

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Author:Lucian Freud

“I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.”

Writing Facts Regret Mechanic Writing Music

Author:Stan Getz

“I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.”

Ifs Thinking Men Wells Important Facts Today Able Understanding Community Race Support He Man Communication Men And Women Appreciation Gender Boundaries

Author:Anita Hill

“It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.”

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Author:Bill Hybels

“It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.”

“The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.”

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Author:Stephen Harper

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.”

Trying Facts Next Power Issues Elements Sexuality Life And Death Motor

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.”

Wells Heart War Country Facts Pain Lasts My Heart Offers Majors Victim Our Country Damage Apology Asian Invasion Condolences My Condolences Asian Countries

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.”

Humans Facts Body Spiritual Spirituality Space Products Exercise Discovery Human Body Judo Pictorial

Author:Yves Klein

“Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Important Reason Character Facts Feelings Faces Too Much Subjects This World Crosses Important Things Face To Face Immaturity Thinking Too Much

Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.”

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Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.”

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Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts”

World Facts Understanding Society Discovery Improvement

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.”

Facts Earth Sun Society Atheism Modern Theory Evolution

Book:What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

Source: What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

“After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.”

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Author:Gabriel Macht

“Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.”

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Author:Gary North

“The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.”

Facts Parent Trouble Touched Bulletproof

Author:Steven Pressfield

“To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.”

Facts Deny Myth

Author:Gilbert Ryle

“Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.”

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Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.”

States Facts Purpose Artist Scientist Fundamentals

Author:Herbert Read

“I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.”

People Humans I Can Facts Shows Emotion Break Cry Down And Communicate Breaking Down Human Emotions Expressing Emotions

Author:Mark Rothko

“There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.”

Moments Facts Fall Shadow Celebrate

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.”

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Book:Robert Rauschenberg

Source: Robert Rauschenberg

“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.”

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Author:Frank Stella

“The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality.”

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Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.”

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Author:Frans de Waal

“I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.”

People Way Art Facts Lasts Moving Generations One Thing

Author:Jack White

“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.”

Facts Realizing Accepting Growing Up Growing Discipline

Author:Loretta Young

“We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.”

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Author:Carl Pope

“People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.”

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Author:Andy Kennedy

“The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.”

People World Facts Universe Dangerous Higher Terrible Creatures Paradise Heavenly

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.”

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Author:Neil Gershenfeld

“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

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Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.”

World Facts Reality Stuff Realizing Brain Appearing

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.”

Facts Song Endure Temptation Melody Simplest

Author:Ken Hensley

“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.”

People Thinking Needs Facts Past Used Term Poverty Materials Absolutes Granted Relative Straightforward Deprivation

Author:David Cameron

“Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".”

“I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.”

People Thinking Way I Can Real Facts Helping Film Moving Fiction Seeing Journey Changed Real Life Utopia

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.”

Want Writing Ideas Facts Accepting Backgrounds Despite

Author:John Amos

“I like the fact that there is challenge.”

Facts Challenges Matured

Author:Keren Ann

“All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.”

Firsts Persons Said Character Facts Happens Behinds Talking Projects Dimensions Dislike First Person Exhibitionism

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.”

People Ifs Giving Said Real Facts Past Found Opposites Dues Screens Real Life Mutual Chemistry Berries Mutual Respect

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.”

Feels Self Facts Higher Disappear Abundance Higher Self

Author:Susan Jeffers

“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series”

May Facts Left Numbers Picks Series Eight Accidents Scales Pairs Spirals Winding Up

Book:At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

“Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.”

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Author:Robert Novak

“A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.”

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Author:Trofim Lysenko

“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.”

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